A 15,000-year-old stemmed point at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas. Image credit: Waters
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So...the Clovis site in Texas was the Garden of Eden? I always knew that Texas was great, but God’s favorite spot on earth? I guess that should have been obvious. :)
Flash flooding like we just had?
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How did those 15,000 year old toys get to 6000 year old Earth?
That is the real mystery!
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I’ve responded to this same subject a couple of time now, once on this forum. What we’re looking at is what many of us collectors and knappers call a Hell Gap, not pre Clovis! It’s just one of the many style points they produced during the Paleo Period. Knappers of that period produced a wide variety of points with much of it determined by the quality of the material they were working. To think that an experience knapper would only make one style point is rather amusing since we see many times where tools were knapped for specific needs
Apparently we are all related to Neanderthals which explains a lot.
Wonder what might have happened if the human lineage was pure?
Maybe the Neanderthals made us heartier and able to survive so that we ended up with brawn and brains.
Foxy Haunches must have dropped that spear on the way to taking her DNA test in Peru lo those sooo many years ago